CloudCraze Hires Industry Veterans to Expand Leadership Team

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Ray Grady, John Wallace and Les Kismartoni bring decades of B2B commerce experience to the team, leading company expansion and product development into 2016.

Chicago (PRWEB)October 20, 2015

CloudCraze, an enterprise eCommerce platform built natively on the Salesforce Platform, has hired three new executives in a strategic move to expand its executive team, global development and product technology.

In tandem with a recent investment by Aktion Partners, CloudCraze’s new hires aim to help the company scale quickly and fill the void in the growing B2B commerce space for agile and scalable cloud solutions.

Ray Grady has been appointed executive vice president, where he will use his nearly 15 years of executive experience in the B2B commerce space to spearhead company growth and investments. Previously, Grady was senior vice president and general manager of Acquia, one of the fastest-growing SaaS providers in the world. He is also co-founder of Acquity Group, which was acquired by Accenture Interactive for $316 million in 2013.

“I am thrilled to be working again with my fellow Acquity Group co-founders as part of the CloudCraze executive team,” said Grady. “The existing team has already made ground-breaking changes in the B2B commerce space, and I’m excited to contribute to the company’s continued growth and development.”

John Wallace, global director of alliances and channels, joins CloudCraze after more than six years at Accenture Interactive, where he served most recently as global alliance lead. His role will include alliance management recruitment and formation, field and inside sales alignment, and partner performance management.

Les Kismartoni will serve as product architect for CloudCraze after nearly seven years as chief technology officer for Appiphony, where he oversaw all technological development and implementation. Similar to CloudCraze, Appiphony is integrated into the Salesforce platform, so Kismartoni brings a wealth of knowledge of Salesforce integrations and capabilities to the company.

“With some of the brightest minds in the industry at the helm of the company, the new additions to our leadership team positions CloudCraze at the forefront of the B2B commerce space,” said Chris Dalton, CEO of CloudCraze. “We are uniquely positioned in the industry with the expertise, scale and agility behind our platform, and we know there are great things in CloudCraze’s future.”

These three strategic hires reinforce the company’s focus on strategic investments, product development and growth in market share in 2016.

CloudCraze delivers enterprise-class cross-channel eCommerce on Salesforce that is four times faster and one-fifth the cost of traditional eCommerce applications. A Platinum ISV Partner within the Salesforce Cloud Alliance Program CloudCraze is built natively on the Salesforce Platform so clients can deploy mobile storefronts quickly, generate online revenue in weeks, and easily scale for growth. In a single Salesforce instance, CloudCraze shares data and processes across eCommerce and CRM and it’s all easily managed through the point-and-click Salesforce interface. CloudCraze was one of eight firms recognized in The Forrester Wave™: B2B Commerce Suites, Q2 2015. Clients include PonoMusic, Barry Callebaut, Avid and Zimmer Dental.